An Arduino is by no means expensive, but that still doesn't mean that it suits your needs right out of the box. If you want to make your own custom board, Make shows you how in a three-part series.

[Reven] recently wrote in to tell us about the Arduino ... case was designed in FreeCAD, and while [Reven] mentions there are a number of issues which could be improved, satisfies all his design ...

Pity that's a master's thesis instead of a glossy coffee-table tome for the design-centric masses ... single pair of Focal's Utopia Diva. In this case, less is most definitely more.

“With these four boards,” Banzi noted, “we are covering most of the use cases ... (Courtesy of Arduino) Maria Guerra is the Power/Analog Editor for Electronic Design.